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20th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected in the absence of the President and President Pro Tem 3/9/1887, Regular Session.
Senate Journal.
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"Cale Garrison was again Senator from Dist. 2 for 19th and 20th Sessions (1885-88), listing his residence as Henderson.". . .After wife Elizabeth's death in Nov. 1899, "remained in Henderson until son, Homer, took him to his home in Kickapoo, Anderson Co., TX."
Descendants of Caleb Garrison Sr., and His Wife, Sarah Fleming, 1966.
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GLENFAWN, TX.
Handbook of Texas Online.
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Census of 1860 lists as "free inhabitant in Beat No. 1," Rusk County, post office: Henderson. Census of 1870 lists as "inhabitant in Henderson," Rusk County, post office: Henderson. Census of 1880 lists as "inhabitant in Justice Precinct No. 5," Rusk County and Henderson "1 precinct" is separate Census location.
HeritageQuest Online.
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Henderson, Rusk County.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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"In 1851 he immigrated to Texas, and stopped for two years at Caledonia, then established himself at Henderson, Rusk county, where has since continued to live," p. 104.
Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature, 1887.
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"Caleb Jackson Garrison, of Glen Fawn, Rusk County...moved in February, 1851, to Glen Fawn," p. 338.
The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.
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19th Legislature - 1/13/1885, p. 1, listed as new member in roll call: "credentials of the new members were presented" and "had the oath of office administered them by the Lieutenant Governor."
Senate Journal.
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Party affiliation listed as Democrat. House member from Glen Fawn, Rusk County.
Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas, 1883.

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